An August rainy day ..... just right for a meeting of Troop 54, Firefly Girls of the World. They decided to have a mini jamboree and chose to join the Fold the Flock project. This world-wide project honors (and mourns) the 100th anniversary of the death of the last Passenger Pigeon by inviting everyone to help make 1 million origami Passenger Pigeons. Check out the website at foldtheflock.org --- there you will find the template for the decorated sheet of origami paper and can join us too.

Sophie, as always, has made an instructional chart.

Pepper, Kylie and Ann Estelle folding like mad.

Having lots of fun, but also some somber talk about extinction and how we can, and should be better citizens of the world.

Lots of new Troop 54 members .... Trixie and ....

Lolly (Lolly is an Ashton-Drake doll sculpted by Jane Bradbury)

The troop has made ten of them .... now I need to see if I can add our total to the foldtheflock website.

My goodness, girls, look at all of you in your uniforms and hats. Dame Cecilia is very proud of you! "Thanks dear Dame!! And Happy Birthday to you!!!"I'm proud of you!! R.

Oh my gosh, how sweet is this? I had never heard of Fold the Flock, and I hadn't realized it was the 100th anniversary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. So please tell your girls that they are very educational! I learned something! I saw your troop listed on the "participants" page. VERY cool!

Thank you for sharing this. What wonderful girls you have, and what a wonderful way to spend a rainy August day.

- Miri

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Claudia

8/11/2014 03:11:24 pm

What fun to see the expanded troop! Your Goldie is stealing my heart most especially.

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Mary Sue

8/13/2014 05:09:45 am

It's great to see the Fireflies busy again. Love how well the new girls have integrated into the troop. And, absolutely your origami birds should be added to the official total, they are very well done. That couldn't have been easy given their small size. Well done!